Winter’s chill is nothing compared to the spine-tingling, bone-chilling selection Shudder has lined up for this season. As the nights get longer and the darkness swallows the light a bit earlier each day, what better way to embrace the eerie than with a curated list of horror that promises to keep you at the edge of your seat?
From suburban nightmares to dark fantasies that blur the lines between pleasure and pain, Shudder’s Winter 2024 lineup is a horror aficionado’s dream—or should we say, nightmare? So, grab your favorite blanket, double-check those locks, and dive into our top 10 must-watch horror movies. Just remember, when the scares get too real, it’s only a movie… right?
Shudder 10. Destroy All Neighbors (2023)
Struggling prog-rock musician William Brown’s life spirals into chaos when he accidentally kills Vlad, the neighbor from hell. This darkly comedic horror takes suburban disputes to a deadly level,...
From suburban nightmares to dark fantasies that blur the lines between pleasure and pain, Shudder’s Winter 2024 lineup is a horror aficionado’s dream—or should we say, nightmare? So, grab your favorite blanket, double-check those locks, and dive into our top 10 must-watch horror movies. Just remember, when the scares get too real, it’s only a movie… right?
Shudder 10. Destroy All Neighbors (2023)
Struggling prog-rock musician William Brown’s life spirals into chaos when he accidentally kills Vlad, the neighbor from hell. This darkly comedic horror takes suburban disputes to a deadly level,...
- 1/23/2024
- by Kimberley Elizabeth
Everyone is looking over their shoulders in “Snabba Cash.” It’s never for more than a moment or two. But once you start tracking when and how and where the people in this Netflix drama series do it, it’s hard to ignore. “Snabba Cash” is the kind of show that continuously convinces you that doom could be lurking around any corner.
It’s also the kind of show that would be a no-brainer hit with even the slightest push from a streaming service in need of one right now. For a corner of the viewing audience looking for a show to take the TV crime show mantle, “Snabba Cash” has all the tension, patience, and craft that have run through all comparable recent faves. A cross-generational look at big business in Stockholm, drenched in danger and laser-focused on everyone caught in its wake, it’s the kind of show...
It’s also the kind of show that would be a no-brainer hit with even the slightest push from a streaming service in need of one right now. For a corner of the viewing audience looking for a show to take the TV crime show mantle, “Snabba Cash” has all the tension, patience, and craft that have run through all comparable recent faves. A cross-generational look at big business in Stockholm, drenched in danger and laser-focused on everyone caught in its wake, it’s the kind of show...
- 9/22/2022
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The fear of seemingly harmless strangers that’s heightened during our era of online “relationships” (not to mention Covid) is cannily exploited in actor-turned-writer-director Christian Tafdrup’s “Speak No Evil.” Building on the thorny couple dynamics of his prior features “Parents” and “A Horrible Woman,” this excruciatingly.
Tafdrup’s squirm-inducing tale is premiering in Sundance’s Midnight section, and should find ready berth among genre fans, with strong potential for remake bids. (Distribution rights have already been secured by horror streaming service Shudder.) At the same time, its all-too-palpable cruelty will repel some viewers, in the same way such prior atypical horrors as the original “Wolf Creek” and both editions of “Funny Games” did.
A grim final destination is all the more upsetting because the over-the-top melodrama of Sune Kolst’s orchestral score, applied straightaway to a simple opening shot of a car driving down a road at night, suggests...
Tafdrup’s squirm-inducing tale is premiering in Sundance’s Midnight section, and should find ready berth among genre fans, with strong potential for remake bids. (Distribution rights have already been secured by horror streaming service Shudder.) At the same time, its all-too-palpable cruelty will repel some viewers, in the same way such prior atypical horrors as the original “Wolf Creek” and both editions of “Funny Games” did.
A grim final destination is all the more upsetting because the over-the-top melodrama of Sune Kolst’s orchestral score, applied straightaway to a simple opening shot of a car driving down a road at night, suggests...
- 1/22/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Hisham Zaman has become the first director to be a two-time winner of Gothenburg’s Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film.
This year, Zaman’s Letter to The King won the top prize (and its lucrative €113,000 award), following on last year’s win for Before Snowfall.
Letter To The King is about a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo.
The jury said: “Letter to the King is a film that takes us to a subculture that is not very well-known. It tells us about people stuck in some kind of no man’s land. It is a film that is compassionate and honest in its presentation of human existence.
“To tell a story with multiple characters is a difficult task, and we appreciate the way all the pieces are put together.”
The jury comprised Chad director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Icelandic producer Agnes Johansen, Norwegian producer Kalle Løchen, Swedish director...
This year, Zaman’s Letter to The King won the top prize (and its lucrative €113,000 award), following on last year’s win for Before Snowfall.
Letter To The King is about a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo.
The jury said: “Letter to the King is a film that takes us to a subculture that is not very well-known. It tells us about people stuck in some kind of no man’s land. It is a film that is compassionate and honest in its presentation of human existence.
“To tell a story with multiple characters is a difficult task, and we appreciate the way all the pieces are put together.”
The jury comprised Chad director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Icelandic producer Agnes Johansen, Norwegian producer Kalle Løchen, Swedish director...
- 2/2/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Hisham Zaman has become the first director to be a two-time winner of Gothenburg’s Dragon Award for Best Nordic Film.
This year, Zaman’s Letter to The King won the top prize (and its lucrative €113,000 award), following on last year’s win for Before Snowfall.
Letter To The King is about a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo. “Letter to the King is a film that takes us to a subculture that is not very well-known. It tells us about people stuck in some kind of no man’s land. It is a film that is compassionate and honest in its presentation of human existence. To tell a story with multiple characters is a difficult task, and we appreciate the way all the pieces are put together,” said the jury of Chad director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Icelandic producer Agnes Johansen, Norwegian producer Kalle Løchen, Swedish director...
This year, Zaman’s Letter to The King won the top prize (and its lucrative €113,000 award), following on last year’s win for Before Snowfall.
Letter To The King is about a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo. “Letter to the King is a film that takes us to a subculture that is not very well-known. It tells us about people stuck in some kind of no man’s land. It is a film that is compassionate and honest in its presentation of human existence. To tell a story with multiple characters is a difficult task, and we appreciate the way all the pieces are put together,” said the jury of Chad director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Icelandic producer Agnes Johansen, Norwegian producer Kalle Løchen, Swedish director...
- 2/2/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Movies with breathtaking camera shots create powerful and engaging images. Whether capturing a close up of a man's shoelaces while exiting a car or scanning a majestic landscape, the shot sets the mood, engages you emotionally and makes the story very real. Who are the men behind these screen images and how do they draw one into the magical world of movies? Erik Molberg Hansen is a Danish Director of Photography, who just completed work on Pernilla August's celebrated movie Beyond. The story's main character is a woman who is forced to confront her troubled childhood, after learning that her mother is laying on her deathbed. Now, a mother herself, she is forced to take her family back to the city in Skåne where she grew up in the seventies. This was a society heavily influenced by alcohol and violence and one theme in the story is, no matter how tough your past,...
- 3/6/2012
- by Soren Petersen
- Moviefone
Noomi Rapace, Beyond Pernilla August-Noomi Rapace Drama Beyond Tops Guldbagge Nominations Best Film Simple Simon Sebbe Beyond Best Foreign Language Film Fish Tank, dir Andrea Arnold Lourdes, dir Jessica Hausner The Social Network, dir David Fincher Best Director Pernilla August, Beyond Lisa Langseth, Pure Babak Najafi, Sebbe Best actress in a leading role Pernilla August, Miss Kicki Noomi Rapace, Beyond Alicia Vikander, Pure Best actor in a leading role Sebastian Hiort af Ornäs, Sebbe Joel Kinnaman, Easy Money Bill Skarsgård, Simple Simon Best actress in a supporting role Tehilla Blad, Beyond Cecilia Forss, Simple Simon Outi Mäenpää, Beyond Best actor in a supporting role Peter Dalle, Behind Blue Skies David Dencik, Cornelis Ville Virtanen, Beyond Best screenplay Pernilla August and Lolita Ray, Beyond Lisa Langseth, Pure Jonathan Sjöberg and Andreas Öhman, Simple Simon Best cinematography Göran Hallberg, Behind Blue Skies Erik Molberg Hansen, Beyond Aril Wretblad, Easy Money Best documentary Familia,...
- 1/5/2011
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Screened at the Berlin International Film Festival
BERLIN -- In "A Soap", the characters watch American soap operas and you envy them because the movie you're watching is appallingly dreary. This two-hander is about a sometimes awkward, sometimes compassionate relationship between a self-loathing transsexual and her downstairs neighbor, a confused woman looking for love in all the wrong places. The movie strands you in two miserable flats with these cliche-ridden characters and a static love story that is as predictable as it is pedestrian. Unaccountably selected for competition at the Berlin Film Festival, "A Soap" is not likely to travel far from its native Denmark.
Trine Dyrholm plays Charlotte, a thirty-something blonde who moves out of her doctor-boyfriend's place for vague reasons. When she knocks on a neighbor's door for help in moving a bed, she meets Veronica (David Dencik), a man transitioning to a woman only Veronica can seem to make the wigs and clothes work for her.
The two don't get along well at first, but Veronica's suicide attempt a few nights later does bring them closer together. Each still maintains a wary distance, however.
Men shuffle in and out of both flats, as sex customers for Veronica and unsatisfying one-night stands for Charlotte. Charlotte's ex (Frank Thiel) shows up every so often to plead/berate for her return. She must get some kick out of it because she always lets him in. One night he drunkenly smacks her so Veronica hurries downstairs to smack him back. That's what girlfriends are for.
These two characters are in such dead-end, depressing situations they are clearly meant for each other in a way that only a truly bad movie will allow.
Pernille Fischer Christensen's repetitive, unenlightening direction of Kim Fupz Aakeson's tissue-thin script brings the pace down to a crawl. Then every so often the movie stops for a narrator to go back over a few details that perhaps got lost in the shuffle.
Cinematographer Erik Molberg Hansen's harsh lighting flatters no actor. Rasmus Thjellesen's sets all too successfully reflect the dreariness of these forlorn lives.
A SOAP
Nimbus Film Rights ApS in association with Zentropa Entertainments5 ApS, Garagefilm AB and FilmGEAR ApS
Credits:
Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen
Writer: Kim Fupz Aakeson
Producer: Lars Bredo Rahbek
Executive producers: Bo Ehrardt, Birgitte Hald
Director of photography: Erik Molberg Hansen
Production designer: Rasmus Thjellesen
Music: Magnus Jarlbo
Costumes: Signe Sejlund
Editor: Asa Mossberg.
Cast: Charlotte: Trine Dyrholm
Veronica: David Dencik
Kristian: Frank Thiel
Veronica's mother: Elsebeth Steentoff
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 104 minutes...
BERLIN -- In "A Soap", the characters watch American soap operas and you envy them because the movie you're watching is appallingly dreary. This two-hander is about a sometimes awkward, sometimes compassionate relationship between a self-loathing transsexual and her downstairs neighbor, a confused woman looking for love in all the wrong places. The movie strands you in two miserable flats with these cliche-ridden characters and a static love story that is as predictable as it is pedestrian. Unaccountably selected for competition at the Berlin Film Festival, "A Soap" is not likely to travel far from its native Denmark.
Trine Dyrholm plays Charlotte, a thirty-something blonde who moves out of her doctor-boyfriend's place for vague reasons. When she knocks on a neighbor's door for help in moving a bed, she meets Veronica (David Dencik), a man transitioning to a woman only Veronica can seem to make the wigs and clothes work for her.
The two don't get along well at first, but Veronica's suicide attempt a few nights later does bring them closer together. Each still maintains a wary distance, however.
Men shuffle in and out of both flats, as sex customers for Veronica and unsatisfying one-night stands for Charlotte. Charlotte's ex (Frank Thiel) shows up every so often to plead/berate for her return. She must get some kick out of it because she always lets him in. One night he drunkenly smacks her so Veronica hurries downstairs to smack him back. That's what girlfriends are for.
These two characters are in such dead-end, depressing situations they are clearly meant for each other in a way that only a truly bad movie will allow.
Pernille Fischer Christensen's repetitive, unenlightening direction of Kim Fupz Aakeson's tissue-thin script brings the pace down to a crawl. Then every so often the movie stops for a narrator to go back over a few details that perhaps got lost in the shuffle.
Cinematographer Erik Molberg Hansen's harsh lighting flatters no actor. Rasmus Thjellesen's sets all too successfully reflect the dreariness of these forlorn lives.
A SOAP
Nimbus Film Rights ApS in association with Zentropa Entertainments5 ApS, Garagefilm AB and FilmGEAR ApS
Credits:
Director: Pernille Fischer Christensen
Writer: Kim Fupz Aakeson
Producer: Lars Bredo Rahbek
Executive producers: Bo Ehrardt, Birgitte Hald
Director of photography: Erik Molberg Hansen
Production designer: Rasmus Thjellesen
Music: Magnus Jarlbo
Costumes: Signe Sejlund
Editor: Asa Mossberg.
Cast: Charlotte: Trine Dyrholm
Veronica: David Dencik
Kristian: Frank Thiel
Veronica's mother: Elsebeth Steentoff
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 104 minutes...
- 2/10/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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